For those of you that are new to my MidNight Gems series. Welcome to this nightly trip on which we will uncover & recover some amazing covers and we will do it a little different tonight....
No that´s BS tonight I will go back to the core of what MidNight Gems are about......
Kicking it off straight and simple....it´s like the young Dire Straits....private investigations v3.0. We need more strong momma´s in this town...so little girls will have to grow up. I have seen you playing with flowers in your hear...I saw you growing into a young woman....now I want you to be a mommy to the world....as the world needs love...sweet love.
1. Admiral Freebee - Rags 'n' Run
Love & Light....for those who follow me.... I am big on darkness.....I love the gloom....but I am a well-balanced soul...as you know I love lyrics & light. And how dark it can get we all know....how lonely we can get we all know.....how hard it is to lose a loved one....most of us know. But life will always leave a light on for the little girl &/or little boy we all carry inside of us.
2. Marble Sounds - Leave a Light On
But even though we cherish our inner child....heaven seems to far away little girl(or boy). We all had dreams ...once so long ago....but where to find our inner child...most of us have no clue where to go....where to find that what´s been lost for so long.
3.Robert Mosuse - little girl
But little girls grow up and turn into fearless goddesses .....goddesses that destroy all that gets in their way. Steamrolling over many male & female desires as their goal is not related to any human desire.
For those who think this song is genius..like me....just also give this a try
4. VALENSIA - GAIA
These celestial songs create an ethereal wave.......... drowning you in the deepest subterranean labyrinths of our human existence. Making that what is left of our minds drift behind the mirrors we put up to reflect the nothingness of our being.
5. ISON - ISAE
When she is done raging we will be the last man standing on earth......we will have to rebuild humanity...taken her lessons forward to avoid a new wave of total destruction. We will have to dig deep....to not repeat the mistakes that made us so human. We are the first person here and the last man on the earth.
6. Wolf Alice - The Last Man On Earth
Nothing comes to mind...how to reboot the last leap of humanity after being destructed due to our own wish to overdrive.....
We can´t do it like we used to.....we will need to change...need to learn....need to see....no to feel....need to open our eyes for a picture bigger than a single existence. Bigger than the eyes of the beholder.....as big as the planet earth...beholden from the moon.
7. Sharon Van Etten & Angel Olsen - Like I Used To
To reach that mindset we will have to go through the Black Saturday of solitude.....the deepest devilish darkness that lives among the skin of every man and woman.
Everything we did once possess now will be gone....to never return we will need to reshape the darkness into a spark of light ....allowing a drop of love...and a glimpse of what is still possible.
8. ULVER - Solitude
Everything...everything starts with a dance....everything starts with a spark of romance....every darkness is chased away by something bigger...something more eternal...something
Ethereal....something divine....something that is not huge...and not kleine.....something that lives in all humankind.....the wish to sobrevivir and find our path to better times, find a way out of the darkness into that last bit of the age of new romantics.
9.Ex:Re - Romance
What the fluff are midnight gems?
Somewhere lost in time, trying to escape out of the rabbit hole back into the rat race there is a vacuum..... that´s the place where midnight gems are found.
My Midnight Gems will try to uncover & recover those beautiful songs that nobody ever noticed or might have been forgotten.
Who the fluff am I?
Being a former DJ playing about everything and having an uncompleted study of radio journalism I have been wanting to do this for years...
Thought about it many nights and guess now it´s time to finally take it to the streets.
Hope you enjoyed this slightly confronting wave of amazing music and you still feel like joining me on the next trip as vol.16 of Midnight Gems is coming soon.